Remember That Pesky Federal Deficit? Well It Ain’t What It Used To Be!

Since the recession, the federal deficit has been topping One Trillion Dollars every year. But just three months ago the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the 2013 deficit would be around $845 billion…well that was then, this is now and the CBO is now projecting the 2013 deficit at $642 billion…just 4% of the gross [...]

What if everything you know is wrong?

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“Reality.” The word has a comfortable, solid sound to it, doesn’t it? Good old reality. Dependable, like the North Star…like sunrise. But, is it actually like that? Are you sure that it isn’t just a bunch of ideas planted in your head? Really?

On the other hand, “brainwashing” has such a sinister sound [...]

Paul Ryan: “we’re not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” (VIDEO)

Watch as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan explains how he’s “not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.”

Did Paul Ryan Already Forget He LOST? and His Slip of the Tongue

With his House budget released today, Rep Paul Ryan repeated all of the goomziama that he spread around the last two budgets…ideas on social safety net items that he ran on and was soundly defeated by President Obama and VP Joe Biden.

Rep Ryan…please note…the AMERICAN PEOPLE disavowed your policies…say goodnight Gracie!

And from [...]

Why Wouldn’t the NRA Support Universal Health Care?

Why is it those who support the status quo on assault weapon ownership and say we can reduce gun violence with better mental health standards are most often the same people who are against single payer universal health care? Couldn’t we do better providing mental health care if everyone had access to mental health providers [...]

Tell the President That Social Security IS NOT On the Table!

New stories today say President Obama is willing to negotiate cuts to the social safety net to resolve the sequestration issue:

These include the Social Security retirement program and Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs for the elderly, disabled and poor that are becoming more expensive as a large segment of the U.S. population hits [...]

Nuns Are In And Priests Are Out

Sister Simone getting uppity

The Catholic Church has taken a lot of abuse lately, and for good reason. On the first day of February it was announced that retired LA Cardinal Roger Mohony would be stripped of his duties. Under his watch, an unprecedented number of children were sexually abused by various priests. Instead [...]

Whither MKE Cnty: Sup Alexander Suggests Dropping Employee Healthcare

In an incredibly callous proposal, freshman County Supervisor Deanna Alexander called for a study by the county to review dropping health care coverage for the 4,400 current county employees and simply paying the federal fine of $2,000 per employee under the Affordable Care Act. She is suggesting that the county could save $103 million annually [...]

Whole Foods CEO changes tune, admits Obamacare isn’t comparable to fascism

Recently Whole Foods CEO John Mackey compared Obamacare to fascism, but after a good amount of outcry and criticism from Whole Foods customers, he’s now singing a different tune. I made a bad choice of language. I was trying to distinguish it between socialism so I took the dictionary definition of fascism, which is when [...]

Whither MKE Cnty: Abolish Municipal Governments

One of the continuing memes relating to reducing county supervisor salaries is the amount of money the county will save…approximately $850,000…which by the way is just under 90 cents per county resident.

And of course there is continued talk that county government is an unnecessary layer of government that doesn’t have many functions in the [...]